Figure 10.

Degree of crystallinity, ${\tau }_c$, as a function of packing density, $\phi$, and equilibrium bending angle, ${\theta }_0$, for 100-chains N_av = 12 systems of semi-flexible chains with bending constant $k_{\theta }=9$ (filled symbols) and freely-jointed chains (open square). Dashed lines connecting points are used as visual support. Vertical dashed line corresponds to the melting transition (${\phi }_{monomers}^M\approx 0.545$ ) for monomeric hard spheres [29].